Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.

Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!

Jeep, The Social Network earned its reputation as a fantastic film by doing exactly what you claim it can't have done. It made the story of Facebook intriguing, it turned the story of rich geniuses fighting over "who made Facebook" interesting and glorious, where otherwise we wouldn't really give a shit. Fincher and Sorkin are alchemists, they made gold from shit.

Jeep, The Social Network earned its reputation as a fantastic film by doing exactly what you claim it can't have done. It made the story of Facebook intriguing, it turned the story of rich geniuses fighting over "who made Facebook" interesting and glorious, where otherwise we wouldn't really give a shit. Fincher and Sorkin are alchemists, they made gold from shit.

Fluffy you told me Julie/Julia was charming and delightful and it was poo-poo.

Also it's 'worth' 50 billion bucks according to people who make such things.

Does it actually make significant amounts of money unlike Twitter?

I have never plaed Farmville, but the first thing I did when I got an iPhone was download a game called Zombie Farm. I believe it was largely the same genre of thing.

It was not fun.

Did it basically involve clicking to harvest after a set period of time and no real strategy besides making sure you had enough time to plant a bunch of shit?

Facebook does have some sort of system where people pay them for credits to buy things.

...which can't represent more than a drop in the bucket. Facebook is ad-driven. Targeted ads, so valuable because they have an amazing amount of personal information with which to target you. Facebook aps routinely harvest images from users (read the fine print) for use in other ads, even ones directed to your friends.

Also it's 'worth' 50 billion bucks according to people who make such things.

Does it actually make significant amounts of money unlike Twitter?

I have never plaed Farmville, but the first thing I did when I got an iPhone was download a game called Zombie Farm. I believe it was largely the same genre of thing.

It was not fun.

Did it basically involve clicking to harvest after a set period of time and no real strategy besides making sure you had enough time to plant a bunch of shit?

Facebook does have some sort of system where people pay them for credits to buy things.

...which can't represent more than a drop in the bucket. Facebook is ad-driven. Targeted ads, so valuable because they have an amazing amount of personal information with which to target you. Facebook aps routinely harvest images from users (read the fine print) for use in other ads, even ones directed to your friends.

Way way back in the 1980's,
Secret government employees,
Dug up famous guys and ladies,
And made amusing genetic copies.
Now their clones are sexy teens now,
They're gonna make it if they try,
Loving, learning, sharing, judging,
A time to laugh and shiver and, cry.